IMMIGRATION
– Amid growing anti-immigrant rhetoric and the administration’s plan to severely decrease immigration, the number of permanent US residents applying for naturalization has increased. This, along with the scrutiny of the citizenship applications, has created a backlog of citizenship applications in the US and DC region. (WaPo, 8/17)

Sookyung Oh, D.C. area director of the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium, said Trump’s immigration crackdown has fueled greater interest in the naturalization clinics her organization runs for Asian immigrants in Northern Virginia.

“For the most part, people are doing it now because they’re afraid,” Oh said. “It’s not that they want to vote in 2020. It’s that they want to protect themselves and their families, and the best way they can do that is through naturalization.”

Mr. and Mrs. Brown had two sons. One was named Mind Your Own Business & the other was named Trouble. One day the two boys decided to play hide and seek. Trouble hid while Mind Your Own Business counted to one hundred. Mind Your Own Business began looking for his brother behind garbage cans and bushes. Then he started looking in and under cars until a police man approached him and asked, “What are you doing?” “Playing a game,” the boy replied. “What is your name?” the officer questioned. “Mind Your Own Business.” Furious the policeman inquired, “Are you looking for trouble?!” The boy replied, “Why, yes.” – Anonymous

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